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From: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
To: Dan Smith <danms@us.ibm.com>
Cc: containers@lists.osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] c/r: Add CR_COPY() macro (v3)
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 14:01:29 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090304140129.35e1ad97@thinkcentre.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1236095764-19325-3-git-send-email-danms@us.ibm.com>

Hi Dan.

Dan Smith <danms@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> +#define CR_CPT 1
> +#define CR_RST 2
> +
> +#define CR_COPY(op, a, b)				        \
> +	do {							\
> +		if (op == CR_CPT)				\
> +			a = b;					\
> +		else						\
> +			b = a;					\
> +	} while (0);

Drop the semicolon ^


> +
> +#define CR_COPY_ARRAY(op, a, b, count)				\
> +	do {							\
> +		BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(*a) != sizeof(*b));		\
> +		if (op == CR_CPT)				\
> +			memcpy(a, b, count * sizeof(*a));	\
> +		else						\
> +			memcpy(b, a, count * sizeof(*a));	\
> +	} while (0);
> +

You might want to employ __must_be_array() or similar to catch misuse.

Misuse might also be prevented by providing some documentation :)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-04 20:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-03 15:56 [PATCH 0/3] c/r: Add s390 support Dan Smith
2009-03-03 15:56 ` [PATCH 1/3] s390: Expose a constant for the number of words representing the CRs Dan Smith
2009-03-03 16:08   ` Dave Hansen
2009-03-04  0:56     ` Dan Smith
2009-03-04  0:59       ` Dave Hansen
2009-03-03 15:56 ` [PATCH 2/3] c/r: Add CR_COPY() macro (v3) Dan Smith
2009-03-03 16:22   ` Dave Hansen
2009-03-04  0:57     ` Dan Smith
2009-03-04  1:00       ` Dave Hansen
2009-03-04 15:05         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-03-18  7:51           ` Oren Laadan
2009-03-18 13:43             ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-03-04 19:53         ` Nathan Lynch
2009-03-04 20:18           ` Dave Hansen
2009-03-04 20:01   ` Nathan Lynch [this message]
2009-03-04 20:18     ` Dan Smith
2009-03-03 15:56 ` [PATCH 3/3] c/r: define s390-specific checkpoint-restart code (v7) Dan Smith
2009-03-03 22:40   ` Serge E. Hallyn

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